1. As much as I dislike jiggs, melee fanboys love her, she was op in Melee and grwon to be a staple character in the series. Me and a lot of other people however think that jiggs will be replaced for Mewtwo instead of lucario...
2. Marx isn't important enough imo, he is more assist trophy material than anything...
3. Crono isn't nintendo... he is square enix...
Crono has a less than 5% chance of being in for the following reasons;
1. The Crono Trigger series is great, but not entirely successful, it started on the SNES, got rebooted on the ps2, got a sequel on the ps1 called Crono Cross, got revamped for ds, and got emulated for playstation network... which leads into my next point
2. Chrono is closer linked to Sony than he is Nintendo... Square Enix is also more "buddy/buddy" with sony than they are nintendo...
3. Chrono is low on the SE food chain...
He has to fight past Every final fantasy, dragon Quest, and the world ends with you protagonists to get a spot in the game... not to mention Geno, a character with WAY WAY WAY WAY more fan requests, priority,and actual lineage and history with nintendo.... hell, geno is even a legit mario character.
4. Why have Crono when we have characters who does his job that are owned and licensed characters of Nintendo?
From what I understand, Crono is a generic Sword wielding JRPG character... we have 2 other generic Sword wielding JrPG characters that people want more that are more fitting to the smash bros franchise...
That is Isaac from Golden Sun and Shulk from Xenoblade Saga.
Golden Sun is a fucking amazing JRPG created by a Nintendo owned studio called Camelot, and Xenoblade is made by a company nintendo recently bought called Monolith Studios... even though Xenoblade is only a year and a half old, a copy of the game runs $80 on the market.... Xenoblade was also labeled "best Wii game in years" by most gaming sites...
You think Crono stands a chance beating Isaac or Shulk?
And if you say Crono deserves a spot over Isaac... Mael, ikaru and I will find you... and end you...
5. Who the fuck is Chrono?
The dood is like... really unpopular... like seriously... I heard the game he is from is amazing and stuff.. but who the fuck played it? Besides like, 1 or 2 people.
Sakurai even stated that he will not put in a 3rd party character unless they are special exceptions...
So unless crono magicly becomes Sonic, Metal Gear, or Megaman popular in the next 5 minutes... his chances of making it in are bleh...
Bayonetta and Lloyd only have a chance for their own reasons...
1. Bayonetta 2 is being Published and promoted by nintendo, Bayonetta 2 wouldn't be a thing if it wasn't for nintendo
2. Smash 4 isn't being developed by nintendo... its being developed by the teams that make Tekken, Soul Calibur, and the Tales of games... so they got Mad Priority and chansed of any of those 2 making it in are hella high...
That's my opinion